BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//BRI - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:BRI X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for BRI REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T150000 DTSTAMP:20261025T225937 CREATED:20261009T172409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261009T172409Z UID:16986-1794924000-1794927600@www.benjaminrushinstitute.org SUMMARY:BRI Virtual Speaker Series: Making the Switch to Direct Specialty Care with Dr. Diana Girnita DESCRIPTION:Stepping away from insurance can be a big risk for specialists. Building a practice outside the traditional model often means rebuilding your panel\, rethinking how you attract patients\, restructuring your business\, and figuring out how and when you get paid for your work. But for physicians willing to make the leap\, the reward is freedom to practice medicine on their own terms\, without insurers dictating the rules.\n\n\nWe are excited to sit down with the physician who coined the now widely-used term “direct specialty care:” Dr. Diana Girnita\, rheumatologist\, entrepreneur\, and founder of the Direct Specialty Care Alliance. Join us as we discuss all things DSC and offer practical considerations for those looking to make the transition. \n \n \n Name(Required)\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n \n Email(Required)\n \n Questions / CommentsDo you have a question for our speaker? Please submit it below and we will answer it during Q&A!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ \n \n\nABOUT DR. DIANA GIRNITA:\nDiana Girnita\, MD\, PhD is the CEO and co-founder of the Direct Specialty Care Alliance as well as a board-certified rheumatologist and internist. She earned her medical degree and PhD Summa Cum Laude in Romania before moving to the United States to pursue NIH-funded research at Harvard and the University of Pittsburgh—producing 17 peer-reviewed publications in transplant immunology. She completed her rheumatology fellowship at the University of Cincinnati and built a successful conventional practice\, where she was named Top Doctor in Cincinnati four consecutive years. In 2020 she launched Rheumatologist OnCall—one of the first Direct Specialty Care practices in the United States. Now operating across 20 states\, the practice has documented what happens when a specialist finally has time to listen: patients finding care after 9-month insurance wait times\, diagnoses after years of dismissal\, and physicians practicing medicine with purpose again. She has since become a nationally-recognized speaker and contributor to media features and articles on the DSC movement. \n  \nABOUT THE BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE:\nBRI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that unites unites medical students\, students in affiliated healthcare specialties\, faculty\, doctors\, healthcare professionals\, and others who believe that free enterprise and a direct patient-doctor relationship are the best means for ensuring optimal patient outcomes at affordable prices. Through leadership conferences\, chapter events\, scholarships to national health care conferences and consistent written content\, BRI strives to cultivate the careers of med students and to fully unleash the power of medicine to maximize human health. URL:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/events/bri-virtual-speaker-series-direct-specialty-care/ CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/BRI-Virtual-Speaker-Series-Oct-2026-Banner-Graphic.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261123T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261123T140000 DTSTAMP:20261025T225937 CREATED:20261009T162823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261009T163035Z UID:16980-1795438800-1795442400@www.benjaminrushinstitute.org SUMMARY:BRI Virtual Speaker Series: Thoughts on the State of Open Inquiry and Debate on Campus with Jared Rhoads DESCRIPTION:How can medical students be expected to think critically about health care policy if they’re never challenged to defend their own assumptions or seriously consider the strongest arguments on the other side? Can students make a good-faith case for free-market medicine\, or explain alternative views without resorting to caricature? And what happens to medical education when certain ideas are treated as sacrosanct\, beyond reproach?\n\nJoin us in conversation with Jared Rhoads\, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Modern Health\, as we discuss the role of debate in medical schools\, the value of intellectual diversity\, and why future physicians need to grapple seriously with competing ideas about how health care should work. \n \n \n Name(Required)\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n \n Email(Required)\n \n Questions / CommentsDo you have a question for our speaker? Please submit it below and we will answer it during Q&A!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ \n \n\nABOUT JARED RHOADS\, MPH\, MS:\nJared Rhoads is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Modern Health. His writings on health policy have appeared in a wide range of publications\, including STAT First Opinion\, Medical Economics\, and Law & Liberty. He received his MPH degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth\, and an MS degree from Bentley University. He also teaches health policy in the graduate public health program at Dartmouth\, and advises graduate students on their independent research projects. Jared has published research with several think tanks\, including the Mercatus Center at George Mason University\, the Center for Ethics in Society at St. Anselm University\, and the Foundation for Government Accountability. Prior to teaching\, he worked in healthcare consulting in a role that handled policy and emerging practices. \n  \nABOUT THE BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE:\nBRI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that unites unites medical students\, students in affiliated healthcare specialties\, faculty\, doctors\, healthcare professionals\, and others who believe that free enterprise and a direct patient-doctor relationship are the best means for ensuring optimal patient outcomes at affordable prices. Through leadership conferences\, chapter events\, scholarships to national health care conferences and consistent written content\, BRI strives to cultivate the careers of med students and to fully unleash the power of medicine to maximize human health. URL:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/events/bri-virtual-speaker-series-nov-2026/ CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/DRAFT-BRI-Virtual-Speaker-Series-Nov-2026-Banner-Graphic.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR